Ferrule for cant-hooks and the like



(No Model.)

A. SANFORD.

FERRULE FOB. CANT HOOKS AND THE LIKE.

No. 366,689. Patented July 19, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

ALBERT SANFORD, OF OSl-IKOSII, XVISCONSIN.

FERRULE FOR CANT-HOOKS AND THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,689, dated July 19, 1887.

(No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT SANFORD, of Oshkosh, in the county of 1V in nebago and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ferrules for CantlIooks and the Like; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact de scription of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the figures and letters of reference marked thereon.

My present invention has for its object to improve the construction of ferrules or toerings for pea-vies, pikepoles, canthooks, and analogous tools and implements such, for instance, as is shown in my prior Patents Nos. 220,098 and 228,913, dated, respectively, September 30, 1879, and June 15, 1880; and the said invention consists in certain details of construction and arrangements of parts to be hereinafter described, and pointed out particularly in the claims at the end of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a ferrule or toe-ring embodying my invention, constructed especially for application to a cant-hook. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 50 a", Fig. 2. Fig. 4 represents a modification.

Similar letters of reference indicate the same parts.

Heretofore these ferrules or toe-rings have been made perfectly plain, tapering gradually from one end to the other, or else have had projections or lugs formed on them designed to cooperate with a cant-hook in turning logs. The lugs or projections referred to may be made of any desired shape; but I prefer the form shown in my before-mentioned Patent No. 22S,9i3that is to say, with their surfaces next the end of the ferrule beveled back, so as to allow the implement when resting on them to move forward end on, and to ride over such slight obstructions as may be met with on the floor, as well as to form sharp edges for engaging the log when cooperating with the hook. Q

In practice it is often found desirable to use the staff on which the ferrule is located as a lever for prying and moving logs, &c., and

when used in this way it is found that the round surface of the ferrule affords a very inadequate support upon which to fulcrum a lever, as well on account of itsliability to slip away from the operator and turn sidcwise as its liability to be bent or broken. I overcome these difliculties by constructing the ferrule A with a substantially straight edge or surface, B, on one or both sides thereof, slightly raised above the general surface and preferably forming a comparatii ely sharp or chisel edge. (Shown clearly in Fig. 3.)

As shown in the drawings, the ferrule is designed especially for use in connection with a cant-hook, the projections or lugs 0 adapted for cooperation with the hook and the straight bearing-edges B being located one on either side, as a cant-hook can be used advantageously as a lever only when on its side.

It is obvious that the straight edge 13 may be slightly concave, as shown on the lower side of the ferrule in Fig. 2.

In the modification shown in Fig. 4 the body of the ferrule is made thick and the straight edges formed by cutting away a portion of the outer surface at the lower end of the ferrule.

I do not wish to be limited to the exact con struction shown in the drawings, as it is obvious that the straight edges or bearing-sun faces may be employed upon any ferrule adapted for application to any class of implenients used as levers; but

XVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a ferrule for peavies, pike-poles, cantl1ooks, and analogous implements having one or more relatively long and substantially straight edges or surfaces on its outer circumference and in line with the plane of the end of the ferrule, whereby a long bearing is afforded and the slipping and turning of the implement prevented when resting on said edge, substantiall y as described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a forrule for peavics, pike-poles, cant-hooks, and analogous implements, provided on its outer circumference and at or near its lower end with one or more substantially straight edges or surfaces and one or more lugs inclined or beveled for facilitating the movement of the implement over the floor or other surface,end on, said lugs being located opposite to or to one side of the said straight edges or surfaces, 5 substantially as and for the purposes specified. \Vitnesscs:

for cooperating with the hook, and one or more substantially straight edges or surfaces at the side, substantially as described.

ALBERT SANFORD.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a fer- O. R. NEVIT'JJ, J12, rule for eant-ho0ks,having a lug or lugs thereon FRANK BELL. 

